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Professor Luna Dolezal

Professor in Philosophy and Medical Humanities │ University of Exeter

Shame is a strong driver of decision-making and behaviour, and as a result is a significant force to consider when delivering human services such as social care, policing, criminal justice and healthcare. These are professions where power imbalances, vulnerability and the possibility of shameful exposure are often inherent to interactions between clients/patients/service users and the professionals and practitioners that are trained to help them.

In addition, understanding shame and its effects is central to understanding post-trauma states and achieving trauma-informed practice, a paradigm which is increasingly adopted in policing and other services to facilitate more empathic, effective and sensitive care. However, a consideration of shame, along with its impacts and effects, is rarely considered when developing principles and policies for practice within human services.

In this free online seminar Luna will introduce the idea of “shame competence” to demonstrate why practitioners working within social care, policing, criminal justice and healthcare need to understand shame and its effects.

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